A gentlemen is one who never strikes a woman without provocation..

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf..

The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians..

The double standard of morality will survive in this world so long as the woman whose husband has been lured away is favoured with the sympathetic te….

The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices. The physician does not….

When a woman says she won't, it's a good sign that she will. And when she says she will, it is an even better sign..

Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it..

Any defeat, however trivial, may be fatal to a savior of the plain people. They never admire a messiah with a bloody nose..

How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh..

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft..

Balloonists have an unsurpassed view of the scenery, but there is always the possibility that it may collide with them..

You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something..

A great literature is thus chiefly the product of doubting and inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation..

Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one..

After all, the world is not our handiwork, and we are not responsible for what goes on in it, save within very narrow limits..

Has the art of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene, and low down, andits salient virtuos….

Dachshund: A half-a-dog high and a dog-and-a-half long..

The essential dilemma of education is to be found in the fact that the sort of man (or woman) who knows a given subject sufficiently well to teach it….

The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he granted that a….

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good..

The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more bloody chronicle in all the literature of….